Legal Blog

President Trump will nominate Kirstjen Nielsen to run the Department of Homeland Security, reports Politico. Nielsen, 45, served as White House chief of staff John Kelly’s top aide during his time as DHS secretary and moved with him to the White House as his principal...

John Elwood reviews Tuesday’s relists.
If you’d told me back in January that the two most reviled figures of late 2017 would be a man who had been thanked more times than God and a furry creature that was created specifically to be lovable, I would...

Florida hired Sara Erin Martin to oversee troubled teens at the Okeechobee Youth Development Center despite the fact that she said she was fired from her previous job. She lasted 76 days, until a boy told authorities a shocking story about Martin, complete with romantic...

In its conference of October 13, 2017, the court will consider petitions involving issues such as whether Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510–2520, requires suppression of evidence obtained pursuant to a wiretap order that...

On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson rose before a joint session of Congress to make the case for a declaration of war on Germany. Summoning his considerable eloquence, Wilson intoned: “the right is more precious than peace,” “make the world safe for democracy,” “a universal...

Larry Marsh, a homeless man in Sumter, S.C., has a history of mental illness and drug addiction. He has been arrested 270 times for trespassing and has served time in jail or prison. Never has he had a lawyer, despite Supreme Court rulings that anyone...

The conservative movement in law has changed substantially in the last half century. At the beginning it was a reactionary movement. The core consensus was that the Warren Court has been out of control, acting more like politicians focused on changing society rather like justices...

At least ten Texas death row inmates are seeking to have their death sentences thrown out in exchange for life in prison under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this year that changed how Texas determines intellectual disability, the Houston Chronicle reports. Some could eventually walk...

Will the federal judiciary start supervising elections by taking over the reapportionment process? For more than 30 years, Democrats have filed suits in federal court challenging Republican majorities in state governments on the issue of the decennial redistricting mandated by the census and accusing Republicans...